Manuscripts
f. 19r(25)a.1– f. 39r(65)a.48
[Saltair na rann]
Heading/rubric: ‘S[altair] na rann inso sis do-rigni Oengus celi De’Incipit: ‘Mo rise ri nime nair’
Middle Irish verse composition on biblical history, divided into 150 poems or cantos.
f. 39r(65)a.49– f. 39r(65)a.51
Colophon for Saltair na rann: “Conice in so corp saltrach na rann .i. na tri coicait duan. A do autem post fri fois[itin] ⁊ fri athirgi. ocus a deich fri h-aisneis na h-eisseirgi conid da duain dec ar trib coictaib duan samlaid” (text taken, with slight modifications, from Ó Cuív and Whitley Stokes, Saltair na rann: a collection of early Middle Irish poems (1883): 114).
f. 39r(65)b– f. 39v(66)a
Two devotional poems added to Saltair na rann: (a) beg. Isam aithrech febda fecht (9qq) and (b) beg. Nimtha saegid for dia ndron (58qq).
f. 39v(66)b– f. 40v(68)b
[Deichdúan na h-eisséirge ]
Heading/rubric: ‘Deichduán na h-eisseirge in so’
incl. Ba cóir do cach crístaide Is ind laithiu tánaissi Sin tres laithiu lainderda Sin chethramad líthlaithiu Cóiced laithe lígaide Sessed lathi lórdata Dia sathairnn na sechtmaine I llaithiu na lánchaingen I ndomnuch na comdála I llaithiu ind lúain lainnerda
‘Ten songs of the Resurrection’, further poems added to Saltair na rann.
f. 40v(68)b.16– f. 44r(75)
f. 45r(77)b.19
[Rofessa i curp domuin dúir]
Incipit: ‘Ro fessa hi curp domuin dúir’
Poem ascribed to Mac Cosse.
f. 46r(79)a.1
Poem (62qq) beg. Fichi rig cia rim as ferr.
f. 46r(79)b.41
[A Dé dúlig, atat-teoch]
Incipit: ‘A Dé dúlig adateoch / Cethrur do-raega ní dalb’
Religious poem (50qq).
f. 46v(80)b– f. 46v(80)b
[Cenn ard Adaim étrocht rád]
Incipit: ‘Cenn ard Ádaim étrocht rád’
Poem.
f. 46v(80)b.16– f. 46v(80)b
Poem (25qq) on the battle against the Midianites.
f. 46v(80)b.45– f. 46v(80)b.i
[Irish note on a monster in the Indian ocean ]
Incipit: ‘Ad fet Augustus míl do bith i fudumnaib in mara ⁊ in talman Indecdai’
Irish anecdote, possibly filler text, attributed to St Augustine concerning a Leviathan-like monster in India causing the tides.
Dynastic and regnal literature in prose and verse
f. 47r(81)a– f. 47r(81)b
f. 47r(81)b– f. 47v(82)a
f. 47v(82)a– f. 47v(82)b
f. 47v(82)b– f. 50v
[Laídshenchas Laigen]
Heading/rubric: ‘Laidsenchas Lagen’
Collection of verse relating to the history of Leinster
f. 47v(82)b– f. 47v(82)b
[Poem 1] Poem in the form of a dialogue between Scoriath, Labraid Loingsech and Moriath
f. 47v(82)b.28– f. 47v(82)b
[Poem 2] Short poem (3qq) on the sons of Art Mes Telmann.
f. 47v(82)b.38– f. 47v(82)b
[Poem 3] dinnshenchas of Óchtur Criathar
f. 47v(82)b– f. 48r(83)a
f. 48r(83)a.34
[Poem 4] Poem on kings of Leinster who ruled early Ireland
f. 48r(83)
[Poem 5] Poem on further kings of Leinster
f. 48r(83)b
incl. Dia ngaba apgitir Lagen
[Poem 6] Poem on Leinster warriors.
f. 48r(83)b.31
incl. Feidlimid athair Echach
[Poem 7] Poem on a battle fought by the Fothairt against the men of Munster.
f. 48r(83)b– f. 48v(84)
[Poem 8] Poem on expulsion of the Fothairt from Tara.
f. 48v(84)a– f. 48v(84)b
[Poem 9] Poem on Leinster dynasties
f. 48v(84)
[Poem 10] Poem on Christian kings of Leinster
f. 49r(85)– f. 50v(?)
[Poem 11] Poem attributed to Dubthach hua Lugair
f. 49v(86)a.7
[Poem 12] Poem on the birth of Brandub mac Echach, king of Leinster, and Áedán mac Gabráin, king of Dál Riada. Cf. the prose version of the story on f. 47r.
f. 50r(87)a– f. 50v(88)a
[Poem 13], the metrical version of Esnada tige Buchet (“The songs of Buchet's House”). Cf. f. 73.
f. 50v(88)a
[Laídshenchas Laigen]
(section)Heading/rubric: ‘Do chomramaib Laigen’Incipit: ‘Eol dam i ndairib dréchta’
[Poem 14] Poem ascribed to Flann mac Máel Máedóc
f. 50v(88)
[Poem 15]
A chasm in the MS: one or multiple leaves missing between f. 50 and f. 51.
Religious literature, etc.
f. 51r(89)a
Begins imperfect.
f. 52v(92)a– f. 53v(94)d
Alphabetically arranged list of saints bearing the same name
f. 54r(95)a.1– f. 59v(106)
‘A poem/song for Colum Cille’: the poem ascribed to Dallán Forgaill, with extensive commentary.
f. 59v(106).17
[Colum Cille co Dia domerail]
Heading/rubric: ‘Adomnan mac Ronain ro cháchain in nothainseo’Incipit: ‘Colum Cilli co Dia dommerail i tias nimustias’
Prayer
f. 59v(106).39
[Dia ard airlethar]
Incipit: ‘Dia ard arlethar’
Poem attributed to Columba
f. 59v(106)b.42
incl. Fuit (poem)
No title in the manuscript; includes the poem beginning Fuit co bráth.
f. 60r(107)a.19
[Colum caid cumachtach]
Heading/rubric: ‘Cainnech do rigni in n-orthainse’Incipit: ‘Colum caid cumachtach’
Poem (5st) on Colum Cille attributed to Cainnech.
f. 60r(107)a.34
[Guidium mac Feidelmid]
Heading/rubric: ‘Cainnech beos dorigni in n-orthain seo’Incipit: ‘Guidium mac Feidelmid’
Poem (9st) on Colum Cille attributed to Cainnech.
f. 60r(107)b.17– f. 62v(112)b
‘The colloquy of the two sages’
f. 62v(112)b.44
‘The false judgments of Caratnia’
f. 63v(114)a.1
‘The five paths of judgment’
Biblical history and geography